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Paul Baum

C A R E E R O B J E C T I V E

Professional with 20+ years working in the Ecommerce industry delivering solutions to complex business needs.

E X P E R I E N C E

Forever Companies, Franklin, WI
Senior Software Engineer, Jan 2019 - Present
Lead development of Ecommerce platform migration from M1 to M2. Focused in the development of ecommerce modules and systems integrations for critical business systems ERP + Salesforce. Job duties include solution architecting, determining requirements, estimating, documenting, mentoring developers, and advising management on projects.
  1. Developed highly performant Diamond service to search large database of stones online using GraphQL custom endpoint which improved responses times from 2-4 seconds to under 1 second which helped improve conversion rates and customer engagement.
  2. Implemented department wide shared Postman configuration to help improve developers productivity.
Full Stack Developer, Jan 2011 - 2019
Lead development of Ecommerce platform migration from OScommerce to Magento 1. Primary duties involved leading development team members to achieve success in projects, mentoring, scoping, and creating project estimates, timelines, and meeting with executive team to advise on and implement solutions.
  1. Implemented custom payment modules and POS system for use in retail stores directly in Magento
  2. Developed custom backend API integrations between Magento and warehouse management and systems to populate order and shipping data automatically with high availability
  3. Developed PIM system for in house product development team to efficiently deploy new complex product configurations
Trivera, Germantown, WI
Senior Developer, May 2007 - Jan 2011
Developed in Magento, Concrete5, Wordpress, Joomla, custom application development, maintaining legacy systems, and direct customer support. Developed plugins for Wordpress, Magento and Concrete5.
Epic Creative, West Bend, WI
Junior Web Developer, Oct 2004 - Jan 2007
Developed custom Ecommerce platform for clients, CMS, and event registration systems. Duties also included database optimization, support, documentation, design to web conversion, and Flash Development (Action Scripting) as well as Cold Fusion migrations to PHP.
Parametric Technologies Corporation, Brookfield, WI
Freelance Web Developer, Jun 2004 - Jul 2004
Triad Creative Group, Brookfield, WI
Web Developer, May 2002 - Jun 2004

A D D I T I O N A L S K I L L S

  • Extension Development (payments, shipping, custom product types)
  • API Development (GraphQL, REST, SOAP)
  • System Integrations (Salesforce, ERP, WMS)
  • PHP, JavaScript, C#, .Net
  • HTML / CSS + SASS
  • MySQL + MS SQL
  • Git, Cloud Infrastructure (AWS) 

E D U C A T I O N

  • Associate of Applied Science - Programmer / Analyst

R E F E R E N C E S

  • Available upon request

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